# Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures

> Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures is a VC fund backing Information Technology. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Corte Madera, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/marin-sonoma-impact-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/MSIVstartups
- Website: https://www.msivfund.com/

Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures is a VC fund in Corte Madera focused on Information Technology and FinTech. Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures (MSIV) is the first regional venture capital fund focused on the North Bay Area’s Marin and Sonoma counties. MSIV is harnessing the financial and intellectual capital so prevalent in the North Bay community to get behind local entrepreneurs working to build the next great North Bay company.MSIV's investments aimto kickstart a local job creation renaissance to bolster our community’s economic future and ensure greater prosperity for all of our community’s participants.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 6 | 43% |
| FinTech | 3 | 21% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 21% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 64% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mike P. Lewis | Startup Advisor in Residence | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-lewis |
| Zachary Kushel | Founder & Managing Partner | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Olarry | Olarry provides comprehensive tax services, designed to meet the unique high income earners and businesses. We're providing our clients with emerging wealth and high net wealth access to tax advisory and preparation services historically reserved only for ultra-high net worth clients. | $10M | Series A | Aug 05, 2025 |  |
| Stackpack | Stackpack is AI platform help companies to manage the accelerating costs, risks, and complexity of third-party vendors. | $6.3M | Seed | May 13, 2025 |  |
| PairUp | PairUp develops a mentorship platform intended to maximize learning, growth, and social support. | $2.8M | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| Sageful AI | Sageful AI is revolutionizing workplace learning with its conversational AI coach, Sagey. This game-changing performance support tool is designed to enhance learning by integrating directly into the learner’s workflow. As employees go about their daily tasks, Sagey offers real-time support through Slack, MS Teams, or text messaging. It helps themapply new skills and knowledge immediately. Furthermore, Sageful AI has developed a comprehensive system to measure the effectiveness of training and the impact it is creating for the business; enabling the ability to demonstrate measurable results. | $1M | Seed | May 23, 2024 |  |
| Channel99 | Channel99 is a B2B marketing technology platform. It unites marketing & finance teams to eliminate marketing waste and dollar inefficiencies, lower customer acquisition costs, and drive pipeline more predictably. | $4.2M | Seed | May 08, 2024 |  |
| NewRetirement | NewRetirement provides a retirement planning and management platform both direct to consumer and to the enterprise via white label or API. NewRetirement helps people manage retirement income, healthcare, lower taxes, and manage fees through content, software, coaching, classes and advisors. The platform helps users optimize across SocialSecurity, Medicare, Taxes, Home Equity, Income, Asset drawdown, Relocation, Work, and Estate Planning. Users can also access fee-only advice on-demand for collaborative planning to help them make and act on better decisions about their future. | $20M | Series A | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| PairUp | PairUp develops a mentorship platform intended to maximize learning, growth, and social support. |  | Seed | Nov 07, 2023 |  |
| Fire Aside | Fire Aside provides software solutions to help communities adapt to wildfires. Their platform helps residents assess and improve their fire safety by providing them with customized reports and recommendations. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Anselmo, California. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Jump Aero | Jump Aero is developing the fastest eVTOL technology and a simplified flight control software stack for rapid response missions. It has both drone and manned aircraft products. Launch customers are the DoD as well as private & government emergency response organizations. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Union Credit | Union Credit is a fintech company that develops an embedded 1-click lending marketplace. | $5M | Seed | Oct 24, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HearstLab](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hearstlab-36b3) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tribe Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tribe-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ulu Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ulu-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures invest in?

Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures invests primarily in Information Technology, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures?

The team at Marin Sonoma Impact Ventures includes Mike P. Lewis (Startup Advisor in Residence) and Zachary Kushel (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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